When the (original) Metro was being planned, the shortest route was under Trinity. Objections were raised as Trinity did not have enough stable foundations to withhold the big drill underneath and therefore fall into a big hole. The engineers from UCD felt this was a reasonable compromise.

SHouldn’t you be out canvassing for @Labour now or are you afraid to miss the start of the Late Late Toy Show? This honorary degree stuff is a joke. Trinity’s academic credibility is falling as fast as Labour’s political cred. Go figure, you loser.

“Makes a mockery of those who work for years to earn real ones”. No it doesn’t. The difficult part is getting into and financing one’s university years. The degree is decidedly the easy part. Two-a-penny now but a necessary step for gainful employment.

I applaud each of these individuals as deserving of their honorary degrees – they haven’t been sitting on their arse all their lives waiting for things to happen, now have they?

The only one who needs to try harder around here is you. Are you really prepared to make first year sociology and politics in TCD the best two years of your life? Plank away. You’re on 7% and going down.

Not all learning and contributions to society are in the form of written theses. I would say that they have all done enough to significantly improve society. Not always the case with honouraries but in this case.

A beauty contest. All have done good things (including Ms Bliss) but I’m not sure how such worthy civic activities tie in with an academic degree. The issue here is Trinity, not the recipients. The university has become focussed on re-branding, enrolling foreign students, the student “experience”, gender issues, “equality” to the point of farce, LGBT “issues” etc, etc, to the detriment of its academic performance and standing. Its sad to watch.

I’m assuming the multitude of folks talking about trinity’s “academic credibility ” are either students who didn’t get the points for the place or UCD lecturers. it’s the only explanation for why they think anyone cares at all